The Final Chick Emerges From Its Egg
Buck Buck is Now Mother to 13 Illegitimate Babies

Johnny B With a Tiny Chick That Will Grow Up
To Become a 10 Pound Black Jersey Giant Chicken

Sooooo Cute

The Chicks' New Condo

The Chicks Get a Resort

The Chicks Are Growing Up

The Chicks With Sour Cream Mustaches

Rocky and Small Banyan Tree at HPP Coastline

Johnny B at HPP Coastline

Rocky at HPP Coastline

HPP Coastline

Our Friend Mary Visits Us Wherever We Move
She Just Picked This Pineapple From Our Yard

Mary and Rocky at

Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park

Rocky at Pu'uhonua o Honaunau Park

We Also Took Mary to See Sea Turtles

At Punalu'u Black Sand Beach

Rocky and Mary Above Kilauea Caldera

At Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Rocky and Mary in The Caldera

Mary and Johnny B, Kilauea Crater in Background

Mary During "Poke-A-Stick" Lava Hike

Tortured Souls Encased in Lava

Mary Roasts a Marshmallow on The Volcano

Lava Pouring Into The Ocean

Video of Lava Pouring Into The Ocean

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Video of Surprise Lava Outbreak

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Another Video of Surprise Lava Outbreak

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Mary Just Yards Away From Flowing River of Lava

Raw Land in Fern Forest with Cleared House Pad

Top of Driveway at Fern Forest Property

Cleared House Pad on Fern Forest Property

Future Site of The Garden

Week One in Fern Forest with 10' x 20' Carport Tent
Wrapped in Tarps- Our New Home

Livin' In The Lap of Luxury in Hawaii

Some Friends Came to Harvest Valuable Hapu'u Trees

The Blank Slate

Johnny B on the Busy Road Out Front

We Originally Shared Our Tent
With The Black Jersey Giants

Rocky with Bea Arthur,
The Most Vocal of the Chickens

Rocky Planting The Garden in Fern Forest

Rocky Planting The Garden in Fern Forest

Bare Bones Living in Fern Forest

The Crops Are In

Fern Forest Property Week 3

Rocky In The House

Rocky's Homemade Chicken Coop in Background

Tent Home in Fern Forest

The New Floor Goes In

Final Touches to The Perfectly Level Floor

A Sneak Peek Inside While Replacing The West Wall

Week 6 in Fern Forest

Fern Forest Panorama

When You Cut Down Invasive Strawberry Guava Trees

They Come Back A Hundred Times More Numerous

Not Good in The Ohia Forest

All Settled In

Rock Path Leading to Hot Shower

View From Shower Area

Our Friend, The Baby Owl

Video of Our Friend, The Baby Owl

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Sunrise at The Coffee Farm

Back of House in Ninole with Unfinished Deck

Johnny B Having a Beer on The Unfinished Deck

Coffee Pickers

View From Deck, Yurt Where Caretaker Lives
Cruise Ship in Background

View From Deck with Cruise Ship in Background

Incredible Full Rainbows Are Common

Fairly Dim Full Rainbow

View of House From Yurt Area

Coffee Plant

Dried Coffee Beans

Our Friend and Landlord Richard Talks Coffee Beans
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Video of Barney Hulling Coffee Beans
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Banana Trees Are Everywhere on the
East Side of The Big Island
There Are Plenty Here on The Coffee Farm

Rocky Carves Tiki Idols From Bamboo on The Farm

August 15, 2012
to January 15, 2014. Rocky and I arrived in Hawaii
on August 15, 2012. We landed in Kona on the west (desert) side
of the BigIsland. Our reason for moving to Hawaii in the first
place was to go to the exact opposite of the New Mexico desert so after about
an hour in Kona, we headed for the other side of the island. We had been researching various locations for
several months before the move and quickly decided that the Puna District was
where we wanted to be.

August 15 to 17,
2012. We spent the first few
nights with Sequoia. We found him on
airbnb.com and his nightly rate was very reasonable. Sequoia loves to surf and makes the very
popular “Filthy Farmgirl” soap that sells at the farmers markets and some of
the local stores. The odor coming from
the lab in his garage was overwhelming but the location of his house (a block
from the ocean) was worth the inconvenience.
We still see Sequoia at the Wednesday night farmers market and celebration
at Uncle Roberts in Kalapana. The weekly
event hosts hot food vendors, live music and sometimes even hula dancers. You can view the lava flow (3 miles away) and
visit the newly emerging KaimuBlackSandBeach
from Uncle Roberts.

Aug 18 to 20, 2012. We spent the next few nights at the 100-acre “Isle
of You” clothing-optional banana plantation.
We stayed in one of the yurts.
Even with no electricity or running water, the yurt was very
comfortable. Kelly and Normand (The
Banana Boys) are great hosts. They host
naked volleyball every Saturday. We’re
currently living about 50 miles away but still occasionally show up there on a
Saturday afternoon.

August 21, 2012
to June 30, 2013. We had been researching rentals and property
for several months before moving to Hawaii. We decided on a 3-bedroom house with a pool
in Hawaiian Paradise Park (HPP). HPP is
the largest subdivision in the United States
with 6,800 1-acre lots covering approximately 25 square miles. Our landlord, Yahavah own the only massage
school in Hilo. She’s got a beautiful soul and still invites
us to her birthday parties every year.
Her latest party was at a pavilion in downtown Hilo
and we were all treated to free massages.

As planned, we posted the extra bedroom on airbnb.com to
generate some extra income. We soon
found ourselves very busy hosting guests, mainly from Europe. Our great reviews put us at the top of the
list on airbnb and we attracted some very cool people. We currently have 44 glowing reviews on
airbnb. We made lots of new friends and
many of them have invited us to stay with them in Canada,
England, France,
Germany, Austria,
Switzerland,
etc. Two of our guests have actually
been into North Korea, one of them with President Jimmy Carter at his
side. Another one of our guests runs the
research station in Antarctica. It was a great experience that we’ll never
forget.

July 1 to October
15, 2013. We then purchased
3-acres in FernForest,
about 7 miles from the lava filled Kilauea Crater at Hawai’i Volcanoes National
Park. It was raw land except for a small
cleared house pad area. We built a crude
pallet floor and erected a 10’ x 20’ carport tent that we wrapped in tarps for
our new home. We built a pallet outhouse
and a pallet hot shower. We cleared away
rocks, built rock paths and planted some crops in the rich volcanic soil. After a few months, we decided hat we didn’t
want to live there anymore so we sold the property and made a few bucks in the
process.

October 16 to 31,
2013. We spent the last 2
weeks of October 2013 at various locations, including the Hilo Hostel, The Hilo
Gardens Guesthouse and an airbnb rental house with our new friend Jeannie. Jeannie’s house was a block away from the
world famous Kapoho Tide Pools. The
Kapoho Tide Pools is one of the safest and most beautiful snorkeling spots in
the world.

November 1, 2013
to January 15, 2014. We posted an ad on Craigslist indicating who
we were and what we were looking for.
That’s how we met Richard, our current landlord and new good friend. Richard owns a 13-acre coffee farm 18 miles
north of Hilo and a very nice house right next to Kehena Beach, the
clothing-optional black sand beach where we love to spend sunny
afternoons. Rocky and I are staying at
the coffee farm house and Richard stays at the KehenaBeach house. Richard actually spends half his time in California
so we have access to the beach house often.
There are caretakers at both houses.
Barney, the caretaker here at the coffee farm, hires all the coffee
pickers, processes all the coffee and takes care of the property. There’s even some sheep in a pasture here. We love it here on the coffee farm. The view is phenomenal and there are no
barking dogs. Also, it’s all solar and
wind powered so no electric bill. We
hope to be here until Rocky’s New Mexico
house sells and he buys lots of acreage for us to start our own farm.